The Donkey lady fights La Llorona and other stories = La señora Asna se enfrenta a La Llorona y otros cuentos

The Donkey lady fights La Llorona and other stories = La señora Asna se enfrenta a La Llorona y otros cuentos

  • Author: Garza, Xavier
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558858169
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518500718
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2015
  • Pages: 144

Margarito is eleven years old now and he’s way past believing in Grandpa Ventura’s ghost stories, but he loves listening to them anyway. One evening on his way home from his grandfather’s, Margarito finds himself alone in the gathering dusk, crossing a narrow bridge. Suddenly, a woman in white floats towards him and calls, “Come to me, child … come to me!” He frantically hides in the shallow river, but soon sees a pair of yellow, glowing eyes swimming towards him. Before long, the Donkey Lady and La Llorona are circling each other, fighting to claim poor Margarito as their next victim! Popular storyteller Xavier Garza returns with another collection of eerie tales full of creepy creatures from Latin American lore. There are duendes, bald, green-skinned brutes with sharp teeth; thunderbirds, giant pterodactyl-like things that discharge electricity from their wings during thunderstorms; and blood-sucking beasts that drain every single drop of blood from their victims’ bodies! Set in contemporary times, Garza’s young protagonists deal with much more than just the supernatural: there are chupacabras and drug dealers, witches and bullies, a jealous cousin and the devil. Accompanied by the author’s dramatic black and white illustrations, the short, blood-curdling stories in this bilingual collection for ages 8 – 12 are sure to bewitch a whole new generation of young people.

Edición bilingüe

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • The Donkey Lady Fights La Llorona
  • Holes
  • The Gift That Is a Curse
  • The Egg
  • Grandpa Tito’s Book
  • The Blood-Sucking Beast
  • Tunnels
  • The Devil Is Making Him Do It
  • The Money Tree
  • The Devil in Mrs. Leal’s Class
  • The Selfie
  • Can I Keep Him?
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Índice
  • La señora Asno se enfrenta a la Llorona
  • Hoyos
  • El don maldición
  • El huevo
  • El libro del abuelo Tito
  • El Chupacabras
  • Túneles
  • El Diablo me está haciendo hacerlo
  • El árbol de dinero
  • El Diablo en la clase de la señora Leal
  • El selfie
  • ¿Me lo puedo quedar?

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